Who wrote the fantasy fiction ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’?

• Robert Browning is the author of 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin.'
- কবিতাটির পুরো নাম - The Pied Piper of Hamelin, a Child’s Story.
- ৩০৩ লাইনের কবিতাটি ১৮৪২ সালে প্রকাশিত হয়।
- কবিতাটি Dramatic Lyrics এ লেখা।
- The poem, one of Browning’s best-known works, relates the classic legend of the town of Hamelin and its burghers.
- অর্থাৎ, বিখ্যাত শিশুতষ গল্প হ্যামিলনের বাঁশিওয়ালার ভিত্তিতেই তিনি এই কবিতাটি রচনা করেছিলেন।

• Robert Browning: (1812-89)
- One of the major English poets of the Victorian age, noted for his mastery of dramatic -monologue and psychological portraiture.
- He is famous for his dramatic monologues. So, he is often called the father of dramatic monologue.
- His wife Elizabeth Barrett was also a poet of that time.

• Notable Works:
• Books of poems:
- Men and Women;
- Dramatic Lyrics;
- The Ring of the Book.

• Other Poems:
- Bishop Blougram’s Apology;
- Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day;
- Dramatis Personae;
- Fra Lippo Lippi;
- Men and Women;
- My Last Duchess
- Andrea Del sarto

Source: Britannica.com